Hardware Canucks posted a comprehensive review of the new AMD Trinity A10-5800K APU

The Future is Fusion. This has been AMD’s mantra towards computing over the last few years and it has carried the company towards today’s introduction of the new Trinity A-Series desktop APUs and the Virgo platform umbrella they live under. With this launch, the venerable Llano-series APUs and the Lynx platform will eventually move into end of life status while AMD’s goal of providing consumers with an all-encompassing heterogeneous computing environment moves one more step closer to reality.

Central Processing Units have been the cornerstone of computing tasks since the dawn of the x86 age and will remain so for the foreseeable future. However, AMD is very much a believer that a CPU can –and should- do more for a consumer than just simple processing tasks. In today’s world, users need media acceleration, transcoding capabilities and a myriad of other items a regular x86 processor just can’t accomplish efficiently. On the other hand, graphics processors have long been built with a focus upon the very areas where CPUs were lacking. The APU or Accelerated Processing unit was born of a need to centralize as many CPU, GPU and ancillary core functions as possible in order to offer an efficient one-stop-shop for modern computing needs.

  AMD Trinity A10-5800K APU Review